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EMDĀD-ALLĀH ḤĀJĪ
Barbara D. Metcalf
(b. Thana Bhawan, India, 1817, d. Mecca, 1899), spiritual guide and scholar.
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ENTEBĀH
L. P. ELWELL-SUTTON
lit. “Awakening”; a Persian newspaper published in Karbalā, Iraq, in 1914 by Mīrzā ʿAlī Āqā Šīrāzī Labīb-al-Molk, editor of Moẓaffarī published in Būšehr and Mecca.
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ABŪ ḎARR HERAVĪ
J. A. Wakin
a traditionist known primarily for his role in the transmission of Boḵārī’s Jāmeʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ.
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ABŪ TORĀB NAḴŠABĪ
B. Radtke
noted 3rd/9th century ascetic.
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AʿMĀ
I. Abbas
7th-8th century poet from Azerbaijan who wrote in Arabic.
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM KAŠMĪRĪ
S. Maqbul Ahmad
noted chronicler of Nāder Shah’s military campaigns (d. 1784).
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BAḠAVĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN
H. Schützinger
ʿALĪ B. ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ B. MARZBĀN B. SĀBŪR, traditionist (moḥaddeṯ) and philologist in the 9th century.
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ḠOBĀRI, ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN
Tahsİn Yazici
b. ʿAbd-Allāh (d. 1566), Ottoman poet, calligrapher, and Sufi who wrote in both Turkish and Persian.
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ʿALĪ MOTTAQĪ
M. Baqir
Saint and Hadith scholar of India (885-975/1481-1567).
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KĀMRĀN MIRZĀ
Sunil Sharma
In his Haft eqlim, Aḥmad Amin-Rāzi devotes a long section to Kāmrān Mirzā in which he extols the prince’s bravery, generosity, and piety. The historian Badāʾuni also praises him as a courageous and learned man, renowned as a poet, but who was led to ruin by excessive drinking, while Abu’l-Fażl portrays him as a treacherous ingrate.